James FRANCE

Other Events:

• Baptism: 29 Feb 1824, Bolton and Chapelry of Blackrod Lancashire

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1841 HO107 522 1 16 at Gullet Aspull drawer in colliery aged 15 born in Lancashire
1861 RG9 3123 7 at Manor House Wood Lane Heskin head married coal miner aged 40 born Blackrod
1871 RG10 4518 19 at Hounton Lodge Estate Rothwell Haigh Yorkshire head married coal miner aged 44 born Blacklock

Baptism:
Ancestry Parish Records No 1279 James son of Henry and Alice France of Blackrod father was miner

Died:
FreeBMD Mar 1875 Stockton 10a 121 aged 52

James married Catherine NORRIS in 1854 in All Saints Wigan Lancashire. Catherine (daughter of John NORRIS and Margaret ROBINSON) was born on 28 Jan 1817 in Heskin Lancashire; died in 1899 in Chilton Lane Chilton Co Durham; was buried on 12 Dec 1899 in Ferryhill Co Durham. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
Ancestry Wigan CofE records All Saints Wigan No 190 Oct 1st 1854
James France aged 30 bat collier of Ince father Henry France collier to
Catherine Cheatham aged 38 wid of Ince father John Norris
By banns; niether signed wit by Michael Hoby and PaterickTough

FreeBMD Dec 1854 Wigan 8c 35

1. Joseph FRANCE was born on 16 Jun 1852 in Waterloo Ashton under Lyne Lancashire.
2. Alice FRANCE was born in 1857 in Heskin Lancashire.
3. Mary Ellen FRANCE was born on 13 Jan 1861 in Heskin Lancashire; was christened on 3 Mar 1861 in Wrightington Lancashire; died on 4 Mar 1947 in Memorial Hospital Darlington Co Durham.

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1841 HO107 522 1 16 at Gullet Aspull collier aged 45 born in Lancashire

Henry married Alice ANDERTON on 1 Mar 1819 in St Laurence Chorley Lancashire. Alice was born before 1819. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
Ancestry Lancashire CofE records Parish of Chorley No 372 1st Mar 1819
Henry France bap and collier of this parish and Alice Anderton spin of this parish married
By banns; neither signed; witnessed by Jonathan Gent aand Mary France